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        Date: 2026-03-30 11:47:20+00:00
        From: maurizio lana <maurizio.lana@uniupo.it>
        Subject: apologies for the repeated message, with an observation

hi Willard,
Manuzio was all about typeface and spacing
Maurizio

Il 28/03/26 09:42, Humanist ha scritto:
> Humanist's unintentional stutter was due to a malfunction somewhere
> along the line by a security filter, or whatever one might call it. It
> provides an excuse, however, for me to point to the repeated
> message for its excellence in formatting. It is one of the very few
> postings to this group that has required no editing whatsoever --
> no rash of asterisks, no cute graphics, no proliferation of dividing
> lines &c.
>
> Recently I wrote to a type designer (with whom I went to university),
> exasperated over the decorations people often use to 'improve' their
> postings. He pointed out to me that the problem presented to us, to
> communicate in a medium that allows so little means of emphasis and
> expression, we share with the Concrete Poets during the era of the
> typewriter. They, too, resorted to asterisks, dividing lines &c. True
> enough--but they were poets, and paid very close attention indeed (at
> least the good ones) to what they were doing.


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la montagna è la prima che insegna a durare
antonia pozzi, lettere

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Maurizio Lana
Università del Piemonte Orientale
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli


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